James Finnerty
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Jim Finnerty is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services, and a veteran of the database industry with over 25 years of experience in database kernel development. Currently Jim is a member of the 'Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility' team.
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Past presentations
Amazon Aurora offers several options for monitoring and optimizing PostgreSQL database performance. These include Enhanced Monitoring and Performance Insights, an easy-to-use tool for assessing the load on your database and identifying slow-performing queries. With this information, you can use Query Plan Management to improve your database response. In this session, learn how to tune the perfo...
Mar 18 2019
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility
Architecture Overview and Performance
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility was recently released, and is now in production. Learn about how Amazon Aurora re-imagined the traditional database architecture for the AWS cloud, providing a managed database service that improves durability, availability, performance, variability, and recovery time. This presentation will cover some of the architectural details underlying the Ama...
Dec 5 2017
Aurora PostgreSQL Tutorial and Extended Deep Dive
Extended deep-dive with hands-on lab
In this training session we will be combining an extended deep dive on the Aurora architecture along with a hands on lab using Aurora PostgreSQL. As part of the deep dive we will cover the unique features and changes that combine to produce improved scalability, availability and durability. In addition, you will get hands on experience creating an Aurora PostgreSQL cluster, configuring that clu...
Apr 16 2018